“No! You are so naive, I can’t believe it,” Chaffetz shot back. “There is so much human trafficking.”

“I am far from naive when it comes to this, but I am also not an alarmist,” Kennedy said. “You were in Congress for so long, you didn’t fix the system either. Democrats can’t do it. Republicans can’t do it.”

The exchange comes as the separation of migrant children from their families at the southern border dominates political media coverage, particularly on cable news.

A new Quinnipiac University poll shows respondents oppose a Trump administration policy that has resulted in the separations by a 66 to 27 percentage point margin.